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Index

• Acheron, H.M.S., 16, 155
• Aitken, Alexander Craig, 3
• Allan, Harry Howard, 121
• Anderson, William, 10
• Astronomy in N.Z., Gifford and, 2, 4, 19, 131, 133–6, 158–9; Bickerton and, 19, 88, 130–3, 158
• Atomic theory, 95–102
• Banks, Sir Joseph, 9–10; his Illustrations, 10, 153; his Journal, 153
• Bartrum, John Arthur, 150
• Beagle, H.M.S., 11, 154
• Bccquerel, Antoine Henri, 96, 98
• Benham, Sir William, 150
• Benson, William Noel, 149–50
• Best, Elsdon, 2
• Bickerton, Alexander William, and partial impact, 19, 88, 127, 130–6; at Canterbury College, 87–9; Rutherford and, 94, 101; publications of, 130, 132, 158
• Biology, in university colleges, 34, 61, 149–51 passim
• Birth of Worlds and Systems, by Bickerton, 132, 158
• Black, James Gow, 84–7; Mellor and, 108
• Botany, N.Z., contributions to, by Cockayne, 2, 117–24, 158; Guthrie-Smith, 3, 117; Banks, 9–10; Solander, 9–10; Menzies, 10, 154; W. J. Hooker, 10–11, 154; Cunninghams, 11, 25, 154; Lyall, 16; Raoul, 16, 25, 155; Sinclair, 20–1, 25, 39; J. D. Hooker, 24–6, 32, 153, 155, 159; Colenso, 24–5, 31–2, 156; Buchanan, 25, 35; Monro, 25; Cheeseman, 26, 155; T. Kirk, 33; university colleges, 149–51
• Brunner, Thomas, 38
• Buchanan, John, 25, 35
• Buck, Peter Henry, 2
• Buller, Sir Walter, 33
• Burns, Thomas, 75
• Busby, James, 11
• Canterbury University College, foundation of, 76, 83
• Catalogue of the Birds of New Zealand, by Hutton, 65, 157
• Catalogue of the Marine Mollusca of New Zealand, by Hutton, 65
• Cavendish laboratory, 95, 97–9, 100–3
• Chamberlin, T. C., 129
• Cheeseman, Thomas Frederic, 26, 155
• Chemistry, contributions to, by Mellor, 2, 104, 107–12, 116; Skey, 33, 35; Maclaurin, 33, 95; Black, 84–7, 108; Bickerton, 88; Rutherford, 94–5
• Choix de Plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande, by Raoul, 16, 155
• Cockayne, Alfred, 122
• Cockayne, Leonard, 8, 26, 92; career of, 118–24 passim; as ecologist, 118–22; publications of, 120, 158
• Colenso, William, and Hooker, 24–5; as botanist, 31–2; publications of, 32, 156 page 162
• Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, by Mellor, 107, 112, 158
• Cook, Charles, career of, 88–91; Rutherford and, 89, 94
• Cook, James, 9–10
• Cotton, Charles Andrew, 2, 68, 91, 117; career of, 137–45 passim; publications of, 142–5, 159
• Cox, S. Herbert, 34
• Crawford, James Coutts, 33
• Cunningham, Allan and Richard, 11, 25, 154
• Curie, Marie, 96
• Curie, Pierre, 96, 98
• Cuvier, Georges, 5, 18; catastrophal theory of, 138–9, 141, 144; as biologist, 143
• Dana, James Dwight, 30–1; publications of, 154–5
• Darwin, Charles, 45; visits N.Z., 11–12; Hutton and, 60–3, 67–8, 157; Travers and, 121; his Beagle diary, 154
• Darwinism, by Hutton, 157
• Darwinism and Lamarckism, by Hutton, 67
• Davis, E. H., 34
• Davis, William Morris, 139–40, 143 Dieffenbach, Ernst, 12–15, 25, 27; publications of, 12, 155
• Dobson, Arthur Dudley, 40
• Drury, Byron, 29
• Dumont d'Urville, J. S. C., 11, 25, 154
• Einstein, Albert, 4, 113–4
• Erskine, John Angus, 109
• Evidence and Scope of the Theory of Impact, by Bickerton, 158
• Exhibitions—
  • Colonial and Indian (1886), 46, 56
  • Dunedin (1865), 55
  • Melbourne (1880), 56
  • Paris (1867), 42
  • Sydney (1879), 56
• Firth, Raymond, 2
• Fishes of New Zealand, 65, 157
• Fleurs Sauvages et Bois Précieux de la Nouvelle-Zélande, by Raoul, 16, 155
• Flora Antarctica, by J. D. Hooker, 24, 155
• Florae Insulartim Novae Zelandiae Precursor, by A. & R. Cunningham, 154
• Flora Novae-Zelandiae, by J. D. Hooker, 25, 155
• Forbes, Charles, 16, 51
• Forster, J. R., 10, 25; his Observations, 153
• Fuller, F. R., 42
• Genesis of Worlds and Systems, by Bickerton, 158
• Geological Expedition to the West Coast of Otago, by Hector, 156–7
• Geological Survey Department, 64, 65, 141
• Geology, N.Z., contributions to, by Dana, 12, 30–1; Dieffenbach, 12–15; Forbes, 16; Hutton, 21–2, 60–9; Hochstetter, 26–31; Haast, 36–47 passim; Hector, 48–59 passim; Black, 86; and university colleges, 149–51; first survey, 34–5, 56
• Geology of New Zealand, by Park, 35
• Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, by Haast, 43, 156
• Geomorphology, 2, 68, 137–45
• Geomorphology of New Zealand, by Cotton, 142–5, 159
• Gifford, Algernon Charles, 2, 4, 19; career of, 125–7; and partial impact, 131, 133–5; and lunar theory, 135; publications of, 136, 158–9
• Goebel, Karl Ritter von, 120, 123
• Gray, John Edward, 15
• Guthrie-Smith, William Herbert, 3, 117
• Haast, Sir Julius von, 2, 25, 33, 34, 60–1, 64, 80, 150, 159; and Sinclair, 20–1; and Hochstetter, 27–31; career of, 36–47 passim; publications of, 43, 156
• Handbook of New Zealand, by Hector, 56
• Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, by Hooker, 25–6, 32, 155 page 163
• Heaphy, Charles, 29
• Hector, C. Monro, 49n.
• Hector, Sir James, 2, 25, 31, 33–5, 60–61, 64, 65, 80, 118; career of, 48–59 passim; publications of, 56, 156–7
• Hill, Sir Arthur, 119–20, 122, 123
• Hochstetter, Ferdinand von, 24, 36, 44, 159; in Auckland, 26–9; in Nelson, 29–30; publications of, 30–1, 156
• Holloway, John Ernest, 150
• Hooker, Sir Joseph D., and N.Z., 24, 26, 159; publications of, 24–5, 32, 153, 155; his Life and Letters, 155–6
• Hooker, Sir William J., 24; publications of, 10–11, 154
• Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, 2, 21–2, 34, 80, 150, 159; career of, 60–9 passim, publications of, 64–9 passim, 157
• Huxley, Thomas Henry, 49, 115, 118
• Icones Filicum, by W. J. Hooker, 11, 154
• Illustrations of Botany of Captain Cook's Voyage, 10, 153
• Immortality of the Universe, by Gifford, 135
• Index Faunae Novae Zealandiae, by Hutton, 66, 157
• Inglis, J. K. H., 127
• Jeans, Sir James, 129–30, 134
• Jeffreys, Harold, 129–30
• Jenness, Diamond, 2
• Journal of the Polynesian Society, 159
• Keane, Michael Cormac, 90
• Kirk, Thomas, 33
• Laplace, Pierre, 67, 128; his nebular hypothesis, 129
• Lesson, P. A., 154
• Lesson of Evolution, by Hutton, 67, 68, 157
• Lindsay, Lauder, 25, 31, 51, 55
• Lucretius, 96–7
• Lyall, David, 16, 25
• Macandrew, James, 72, 73
• McKay, Alexander, 33, 34
• Maclaurin, James S., 33, 95
• Mantell, W. B. D., 33
• Manual of the New Zealand Flora, by T. F. Cheeseman, 26
• Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca, by Hutton, 65, 157
• Maori Races of New Zealand, by Colenso, 32, 156
• Marshall, Patrick, 140
• Mellor, Joseph William, 2, 87, 91, 149; career of, 104–16 passim; publications of, 107, 112, 115–6, 158
• Menzies, Archibald, 10–11, 154
• Moa remains, 30, 41–2, 48
• Monro, Sir David, 25
• Moulton, F. R., 129
• Musci Exotici, by W. J. Hooker, 10, 154
• Museums—
  • Auckland, 27
  • Canterbury, Haast at, 34, 44, 46, 61; Hutton at, 34, 66; Speight at, 150
  • Colonial, 56
  • Dominion, 141
  • Otago, 55, 64
• Neu-Seeland, by Hochstetter, 156
• New Zealand, by Hochstetter, 30–1, 156
• New Zealand Company, 12, 16, 71
• New Zealand Cryptogamia, by Menzies, 154
• New Zealand Institute, foundation of, 56–7; 61, 64, 123
• New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, 160
• New Zealand Journal of Science, 159
• New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, 135, 136, 158, 159
• New Zealand Plants and Their Story, by Cockayne, 120, 158
• Novara, frigate, 26, 36, 156
• Origin of Species, by Darwin, 4, 18, 41, 62
• Outline of New Zealand Geology, by Hector, 157
• Owen, Sir Richard, 48, 49, 118 page 164
• Park, James, 22, 35, 150
• Partial impact, theory of, 88, 130–5
• Playfair, Lord Lyon, 85–6
• Radiations from Radioactive Substances, by Rutherford, 102, 157–8
• Radioactivity, by Rutherford, 98, 157
• Raoul, M. E., 16, 25; publications of, 16, 155
• Report on the Geology and Goldfields of Otago, by Hutton and Ulrich, 65, 157
• Richard, Achille, 154
• Romance of the Earth, by Bickerton, 132
• Romance of the Heavens, by Bickerton, 132, 158
• Ross, Sir James, 24
• Rutherford, Ernest, 2, 18, 91, 104, 108, 124, 149; career of, 93–103 passim; publications of, 98, 102, 157–8; biographies of, 158
• Schmidt, G. F. R., 6–7
• Shand, John, 75; career of, 83–4
• Sinclair, Andrew, 20–1, 25, 39
• Skey, William, 33, 35
• Soddy, Frederick, 18, 98
• Solander, Daniel Carl, 9–10, 25; publications of, 10, 153
• Southern Stars, 159, 160
• Speight, Robert, 150
• Stars, Temporary and Variable, by Bickerton, 130
• Stuart, Donald McNaughton, 75
• Thomson, G. M., 107–8, 159
• Thomson, James Allan, 44–5, 107, 140–2
• Thomson, Sir J, J., 95, 96, 97, 100
• Topographical and Geological Exploration in Nelson Province, by Haast, 156
• Transactions of the N.Z. Institute, 57, 66, 120, 156, 159
• Travels in New Zealand, by Dieffenbach, 12, 15, 155
• Travers, W. T. L., 33, 121
• Trees of New Zealand, by Cockayne and Turner, 158
• Turner, E. Phillips, 158
• Tutira, by Guthrie-Smith, 117
• Ulrich, George Henry Frederick, 65, 157
• Uncle Joe's Nonsense, by Mellor, 115–6, 158
• United States Exploring Expedition, 12, 154
• University of N.Z., 35, 58, 84, 89; acts, 74–7; charters, 77; success of, 91–2, 147–9, 151
• University of Otago, foundation of, 71–6; professors of, 64, 66, 75, 81, 83–5, 150; success of, 77–9, 83
• Vancouver, Captain George, 10, 154
• Vegetation der Erde, 120–3
• Vegetation of New Zealand, by Cockayne, 120, 158
• Vries, Hugo de, 123
• Wilkes, Charles, 12
• Zittel, Karl, 138